CCT333 Tutorial 7 Wiki Questions:
Describe how he defines 'design as a collaborative process', and cite two examples of how creators involve the people they want to create for in their work, according to Bill Moggridge's lecture. (1 paragraph each/3 paragraphs)

Bill Moggridge defines design as a collaborative process and uses togetherness. He dictates that designers, in his case an industrial designer, must consider the respondent when making an interface. You must consider you and who the product is for and all aspects of the design to insure usability. Moreover, Morggridge uses examples such as Nike sun glass design, a chair design and intel interface design to exemplify togetherness.

With the Nike sun glasses the creator must consider the size of the person head, the distance of eyes to nose on an average head, pressure point of the temple of the glasses and much more to ensure that the glasses have efective usability and comfort.

Secondly, considering the interface Moggridge states that in order to effectively design an interface, such as the interface made for intel we must also consider how the brain works. The mind and how it uses technology, how it visualizes the space and how the brain functions when working with technology.


Find an online example of a product which utilizes his principles of collaborative design which it involves people in it design. Cite its URL, and describe its design process in two paragraphs, and how it involved its user(s) in a a paragraph. (3 paragraphs)


An example of collaborative design is RIM's design of blackberry's radio. The company uses a variety of company alliances while also researching consumer want and need.The company needed to create a music portal to compete with its competition the iphone and itunes. In order to do so they needed to research and understand what consumers expected when using mobile applications with music and what the current market was.

RIM then quickly realized that they would have to acquire alliances with other companies to ensure that they could keep up with the pace of the music industry and consumer ned. They also needed to consider usability, the application must be free and intuitive.

They created a radio site for its US clients that used a collabortive process both with mergers of companies such as Amazon and understanding consumer want. This includes what kind of music consumers want, the current standards, what consumers expect an more.

http://newgadgetss.com/new-blackberry-music-application.html